 | National Sunday school union - 1871 - Liczba stron: 598
...beautiful quotation from Professor Tyndall : — "I have seen," he says, "the wild stone avalanches of the Alps, which smoke and thunder down the declivities...child could carry of that tender material demands an energy competent to gather up the scattered blocks of the largest stone avalanches I have ever seen,... | |
 | James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1876 - Liczba stron: 508
...thunderstorm." * Tyndall himself also beautifully illustrates this subject in his remark : " I have seen snow-flakes descending so softly as not to hurt...competent to gather up the shattered blocks of the largest stone avalanche I have ever seen, and pitch them twice the height from which they fell."f When galvanic... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1863 - Liczba stron: 538
...feet high ; and the third is equal to the descent of a ton down a precipice 433 feet high. I have seen the wild stone-avalanches of the Alps, which smoke...; yet to produce, from aqueous vapour, a quantity of that tender material which a child could carry, demands an exertion of energy competent to gather... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1863 - Liczba stron: 500
...feet high ; and the third is equal to the descent of a ton down a precipice 433 feet high. I have seen the wild stone-avalanches of the Alps, which smoke...; yet to produce, from aqueous vapour, a quantity of that tender material which a child could carry, demands an exertion of energy competent to gather... | |
 | EDWARDL.YOUMANS,M.D. - 1863 - Liczba stron: 468
...down a precipice 433 feet high. 281. Prof. TYNDALL remarks, *I have seen the wild stone avalanches of the Alps, which smoke and thunder down the declivities...which they were composed ; yet to produce from aqueous vapor a quantity of that tender material which a child could carry, demands an exertion of energy competent... | |
 | Josiah Parsons Cooke - 1864 - Liczba stron: 376
...these atomic motions represent. "I have seen," says Professor Tyndall, " the wild stone avalanches of the Alps, which smoke and thunder down the declivities...which they were composed ; yet to produce from aqueous vapor a quantity of that tender material which a child could carry, demands an exertion of energy competent... | |
 | 1865 - Liczba stron: 388
...high ; and the third is equal to thtT descent of a tun down a precipice 433 feet high. I have seen the wild stone-avalanches of the Alps, which smoke...they were composed ; yet, to produce, from aqueous vapor, a quantity of that tender material which a child could carry, demands an exertion of energy... | |
 | 1865 - Liczba stron: 648
...ton down a precipice four hundred and thirty-three feet high. I have seen the wild stone avalanches of the Alps, which smoke and thunder down the declivities...which they were composed ; yet to produce from aqueous vapor a quantity of that tender material which a child could carry, demands an exertion of energy competent... | |
 | 1865 - Liczba stron: 372
...high ; and the t'.iird is equal to the descent of a tun down a precipice 43;> feet high. I have seen the wild stone-avalanches of the Alps, which smoke...fragile spangles of which they were composed; yet, t ) produce, from aqueous vapor, a quantity of that tender material which a child could carry, demands... | |
 | 1865 - Liczba stron: 648
...ton down a precipice four hundred and thirty-three feet high. I have seen the wild stone avalanches of the Alps, which smoke and thunder down the declivities...sufficient to stun the observer; I have also seen snow-flake's descending so softly as not to hurt the fragile spangles of which they were composed ;... | |
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I have seen the wild stone-avalanches of the Alps, which smoke and thunder down the declivities with a vehemence almost sufficient to stun the observer. I have also seen snow-flakes descending so softly as not to hurt the fragile spangles of which they... 
